Powerful

Did you people see the same film I saw?

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The eighth installment of Fast & Furious is fairly decent to watch. Some improvements made after the previous films was the dialogue, humor, and the outrageous car stunts. However, I think the downgrade from this movie has got to be the story itself. Dom's temporary betrayal really took the franchise to a darker tone; but at the same time, it's highly similar to the Fast & Furious 6 when Letty was working for the antagonists for part of the movie. Also, the decision to have Deckaed Shaw working alongside the crew all of a sudden raises a lot of confusion. To me, I saw it as, "It's cools to have Shaw on our side, but you still killed Han. So I not so sure." But I still think it's a good movie.

Fast and the Furious with a mix of World War Z in it. Weak jokes, super powered humans, and oh I forgot, another epic chase scene that last forever.

The eighth outing for the automotive crew makes the Oceans film cast list look small. When acting royalty, in the shape of Dame Helen Mirren are uncredited, you have to question why. Given the script, it was never going to win her another Oscar . The car stunts try to out do the previous seven films, with big explosions and a seemingly unlimited number of crashing cars. Yet compared to the previous films, the street racing and precision driving that made the previous films so enjoyable has been replaced with Dwayne Johnson coaching little league soccer and my favourite character: baby Toretto (James Ayoub/Carlos De La Hoz), who totally upstages Jason Statham - who is in competition with Tyrese Gibson for the most amusing scene - without speaking a single word. The film is a bunch of set pieces, with a bit of story to tie them together; cliches of being able to avoid any injuries while facing an army of heavy fire or wrecking a city with technology that would make Elon Musk jealous and just walking away.Charlize Theron makes for a decent foe, though for all her apparent power and infamy, her execution leaves a lot to be desired, as well as enough room for the usual array of supped up muscle cars to drive all over and through it. While Kurt Russell reprises his role as Mr Nobody, basically taking the role of trying to direct the super egos by being secretive/mysterious and cool at the same time.Whether the next film in the series has Dom's nitrous boosted stallion sporting ISO fix seats, I don't know. But given kids born when the series started can now drive themselves, I wouldn't put it past the directors having him driving a V8 minivan a quarter mile at a time.

Probably entertaining if you are male and between 13 and 22, but if you aren't. it's probably best to avoid it.